Saturday 11th October was National Coming Out Day (NCOD), an internationally observed civil awareness day celebrating individuals who publicly identify as a gender or sexual minority. To celebrate, Cat Crossley from HarperCollins has blogged on books, publishing and coming out.

What do Oscar Wilde, Radclyffe Hall and animal onesies have in common? They all came out of the closet long before it was safe to do so. It was National Coming Out Day on Saturday 11th and while it may seem l...